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International Symposium on Collaboration, Social Computing, New Media
and Networks (SoMNet 2012)

Call for Papers

As part of
The 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and
Systems (CTS 2012)
May 21-25, 2012

The Westin Westminster Hotel
Denver, Colorado, USA
In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP

Submission Deadline: January 20, 2012

Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or
posters

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
Social media, social computing, new media and networks have become major
areas of research, applications, and development in recent years.  The
adoption of social media and their applications have expanded in kind
and size to unprecedented levels and continue to grow at accelerated
rates.  The creation and deployment of Social Media is one of the main
forces behind the evolution and expansion of the Internet, the Web, and
mobile media.  Social media account for the majority of Internet traffic
while its content comprises the greater part of the daily published
multi media on the Web.  These technologies have a profound impact on
society and on private life.  Furthermore, there is a great diversity in
the communities of people interested in social computing: researchers in
computing, communications, and social sciences; industrial
practitioners; wide range of businesses; software and online game
vendors; web entrepreneurs; digital government organizations; political
analysts; educational institutions, etc.

You are cordially invited to participate in, contribute to, and attend
the International Symposium on Collaboration, Social  Computing, New
Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2012) to be held as part of CTS 2012
(http://cts2012.cisedu.info/) May 21-25, 2012 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
 The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the
state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi disciplinary field of
social computing and new media.  Participation is extended to
researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all
disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology,
statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies, …).

The Symposium topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

    Theories and Methodologies for Social Computing
    Architectures and Design of Social Systems
    Qualitative and Quantitative Studies of Social Media and Networks
    Social Networks Interfaces and Interaction Techniques
    Machine Learning Methods for Social Computing
    Human Machine Interaction in Social Computing
    Community and Organization Multi Media
    Social Networks Enablement via Multi-Modality Social Media
    New Social Media Applications
    Semantic Web for Social Computing
    Web Driven Media Creation
    Exploration and Analysis of Social Networks
    Psychological, Personality-based and Ethnographic Studies of Social
Networks
    Modeling of Social Behavior
    Modeling of Social Media and Networks
    Data Modeling for Social Networks
    Social Computing and Networking Tools, Techniques and Technologies
    Social Networking Software
    Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of Social Networks Data
    Processing of Social Stream Data
    Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Systems for Social Networks
    Text Categorization; Topic Recognition; Demographic/Gender/Age
Identification
    Subjectivity in Textual Data; Sentiment Analysis; Polarity/Opinion
Identification and Extraction
    Social Search, Mining and Discovery
    Large-scale Social Image and Video Analysis and Retrieval
    Collective and Social Intelligence
    Emotional and Cultural Dynamics
    Trend Identification and Tracking
    Security and Risk in Social Contexts
    Privacy Policies for Online Social Networks
    Privacy and Security Tradeoffs in Social Networks
    Access Control in Online Social Networks
    Trust, Reputation and Recommendation Systems
    Summarization of Massive Social Networks Data
    Social Media Tools; Navigation and Visualization
    Visualization of Social Networks
    Services in Social Networks
    Leveraging Social Networks in the Enterprise
    Social Network Mapping in the B2B Sphere
    Dealing with Sensitive Information
    New Technologies and Trends for Social Computing
    Social Media: Weblogs, Microblogs, Wikis, Forums, Tweeting,
Podcasts, Usenets, …
    Performance and Benchmarking for Social Network Analysis
    Social Media and Networks Monitoring and Engagement


PAPER SUBMISSION
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on
above and other topics related to social computing, networks and media.
 Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously
submitted elsewhere. Submissions could be for full papers, short papers,
poster papers, or posters (please specify).  Submission should include a
cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers,
phone numbers, and email addresses.  Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author(s) and include up to 6 keywords from the above list
of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words.  The full
manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.
Additional pages will be charged additional fee.   Short papers (up to 4
pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to
http://cts2012.cisedu.info/home/posters for the submission details)
will also be accepted.     Please include page numbers on all
preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide
helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Symposium submission
Web page at   https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=somnet2012.

Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews.  Papers will be
selected based on their originality, relevance, contribution, technical
clarity and presentation.  Submission implies the willingness of at
least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted.
 Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be
registered and presented at the Symposium.

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted
on the CTS 2012 Conference web site.  It is our intent to have the
proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available
at the time of the conference.  The proceedings is projected to be
included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed accordingly.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium,
please contact the Symposium organizers.


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: -------------------------- January 20, 2012
Acceptance Notific ---------------------------------- February 10, 2012
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ----------- March 01, 2012
Conference Dates:  ---------------------------------- May 21 - 25, 2012


Tracks, Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions Co-Chair:

Hilda Tellioglu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 Phone:  +43.1.58801.18716
 Fax:    +43.1.58801.918799
 Email:  [log in to unmask]


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Hilda Tellioglu
Vienna University of Technology
Faculty of Informatics
Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology
Multidisciplinary Design Group
Favoritenstrasse 9-11/187, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

Phone:+43.1.58801.18716
Fax: +43.1.58801.918716
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://media.tuwien.ac.at/h.tellioglu
DVR: 0005886